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The first general reference covering the centuries-old conflict that continually threatens to ignite the Middle East.

Table of Contents:

• v. 1. A-F
• List of entries
• List of maps
• Preface
• General maps
• Introduction
• Overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Aaronsohn, Aaron
• Aaronsohn, Sarah
• Abbas, Abu
• Abbas, Mahmoud
• Abd al-Hadi, Awni
• Abdel-Rahman, Omar
• Abdulhamid II, Sultan
• Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia
• Abdullah I, King of Jordan
• Abed Rabbo, Yasser
• Abu Nidal
• Abu Sharah, Naif
• Acheson, Dean

• Achille Lauro hijacking
• Adan, Avraham
• Adenauer, Konrad
• Administrative detentions
• Agranat, Shimon
• Agranat Commission
• Agriculture
• Agudat Israel Party
• Aircraft, Bombers
• Aircraft, Electronic warfare
• Aircraft, Fighters
• Aircraft, Helicopters
• Aircraft, Kfir fighter
• Aircraft, Reconnaissance
• Aircraft, Transport
• Airpower, Role in the Arab-Israeli Wars
• Akko, Israel
• Al-Aqsa Mosque
• Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre
• Al-Birch
• Al Jazeera
• Al-Mawasi
• Al Qaeda
• Al-Saiqa
• Albright, Madeleine
• Algeria
• Algiers Agreement
• Algiers Declaration
• Aliya, First
• Aliya, Second
• Aliya, Third
• Aliya, Fourth
• Aliya, Fifth
• Aliya Bet
• Aliya Hadasha
• All Palestine Government
• Allenby, Sir Edmund Henry Hynman
• Allon, Yigal
• Allon Plan
• Altalena Incident
• Amer, Abdel Hakim
• American Israel Public Affairs Committee
• American Jewish Committee
• American Jewish Conference
• American Jewish Congress
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• American Palestine Committee
• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
• Anglo-Egyptian Treaty
• Anglo-Jordanian Defense Treaty
• Anielwicz, Mordecai
• Anti-Arab Attitudes and Discrimination
• Anti-Semitism
• Antitank weapons
• Antonius, George
• Aoun, Michel
• Aqaba, Gulf of
• Aqr, Mamudh al-
• Arab Economic Boycott of Israel
• Arab Higher Committee
• Arab-Jewish Communal War
• Arab League
• Arab Legion
• Arab Liberation Army
• Arab nationalism
• Arab Nationalist Movement
• Arab oil embargo
• Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 - Arab Revolt of 1936-1939
• Arab riots, Jerusalem
• Arab socialism
• Arabah
• Arafat, Yasser
• Archaeological sites and projects
• Arens, Moshe
• Arif, Arif al-
• Armored personnel carriers
• Armored Warfare Doctrine
• Arms sales, International
• Artillery
• Artillery, Antiaircraft
• Ashkenazic Judaism
• Ashrawi, Hanan Mikhail
• Assad, Bashar al-
• Assad, Hafez al-
• Assimilation
• Aswan High Dam Project
• Attlee, Clement Richard
• Attrition, War of
• Avukah
• Azzam Pasha, Abdel Rahman
• Baath Party (Syria)
• Baathism
• Baghdad Pact
• Baker, James Addison, III
• Baker Plan
• Baldat al-Shaykh Massacre
• Balfour, Arthur James
• Balfour Declaration
• Baltim, Battle of
• Bangalore torpedo
• Bar-Ilan, Meir
• Bar Kokhba
• Bar-Lev, Chaim
• Bar-Lev Line
• Barak, Ehud
• Barghuti, Marwan
• Basle Program
• Bedouin
• Beersheba
• Begin, Menachem
• Beilin, Yossi
• Beirut
• Beit Sheʼan Valley
• Bekáa Valley
• Bel-Gal, Avigdor
• Belkovsky, Zvi
• Ben-Ari, Uri
• Ben-Gurion, David
• Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak
• Bernadotte, Folke
• Bethlehem
• Bevin, Ernest
• Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
• Bialik, Haim Nachman
• Bible
• Biltmore Program
• Bilu
• Biological weapons and warfare
• Black September
• Black September Organization
• Bʼnai Bʼrith
• Bombs, Gravity
• Bombs, Precision-guided
• Border war
• Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
• Brandeis, Louis Dembitz
• Brandt, Willy
• Brenner,m Joseph Hayyim
• Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
• Bʼriha
• Brodetsky, Selig
• Brzezinski, Zbigniew
• Bull, Gerald Vincent
• Bunche, Ralph Johnson
• Burma Road
• Bush, George Herbert Walker
• Bush, George Walker
• Cadogan, Alexander George Montagu
• Cairo Accord
• Cairo Agreement
• Cairo Declaration, Palestine Liberation Organization
• Camp David Accords
• Carmel, Moshe
• Carter, James Earl, Jr.
• Chamberlain, Joseph
• Chamoun, Camille
• Chancellor, Sir John Robert
• Chemical weapons and warfare
• China, People's Republic of, Middle East Policy
• Chinese Farm, Battle of the
• Church of the Holy Sepulcher
• Church of the Nativity
• Churchill, Sir Winston
• Climate of the Middle East
• Clinton, William Jefferson
• Committee of Jewish Delegations at the Peace Conference
• Communist Party of Israel
• Conscription policies
• Copenhagen Bureau
• Creech Jones, Arthur
• Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon
• Cyprus
• Czechoslovakia, Middle East policy
• Dahlan, Muhammad Yusuf
• Daoud, Muhammad
• Darwish, Mahmoud
• Dayan, Moshe
• Dead Sea
• Decolonization
• Deedes, Sir Wyndham
• Defensive Shield, Operation
• Degania, Battle for the
• De Gaulle, Charles
• Deir Yassin massacre
• Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• Der Judenstaat
• Desalination
• Diaspora
• Dimona, Israel
• Dome of the Rock
• Dreyfus Affair
• Druze
• Dubnow, Simon Meyervich
• Dulles, John Foster
• East Africa Scheme
• Eban, Abba Solomon
• Eden, Robert Anthony
• Egypt
• Egypt, Armed Forces
• Egyptian-Soviet Arms Deal
• Eichmann, Karl Adolf
• Eilat, Israel
• Eilat sinking
• Einstein, Albert
• Eisenhower, Dwight David
• Eitan, Rafael
• El Arish
• El Arish Scheme
• Elazar, David
• ElBaradei, Mohamed
• El Hassan bin Talal, Prince
• Emancipation of the Jewish population
• Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs
• Entebbe Hostage Rescue
• Eshkol, Levi
• European Union and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Exodus incident
• Expellees and refugees, Palestinian
• Ezra and Nehemia, Operation
• Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia
• Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia
• Faisal I, King of Iraq
• Faisal II, King of Iraq
• Falwell, Jerry
• Farouk I, King of Egypt
• Fatah
• Fatwa
• Fayruz
• Fayyad, Salam
• Fadayeen
• Film and the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Fortifications
• France, Middle East policy
• Franco-Lebanese Treaty
• Franco-Syrian Treaty
• Index
• v. 2. G-O
• List of entries
• List of maps
• General maps
• Galilee
• Galut nationalism
• Gamaat Islamiya
• Ganzouri, Kamal al-
• García Granados, Jorgé
• Gaza Raid
• Gaza Strip
• Gaza Strip disengagement
• General Intelligence Agency, Palestinian
• Genesis, Book of
• Geneva Accord
• Geneva Peace Conference
• Geography of the Middle East
• Germany, Federal Republic of, Middle East policy
• Giddi Pass
• Glubb, Sir John Bagot
• Gog and Magog
• Golan Heights
• Goldmann, Nahum
• Gonen, Shmuel
• Green Line
• Gur, Mordechai
• Ha-Avara
• Habash, George
• Habib, Philip
• Hadassah
• Haganah
• Haifa
• Halukka
• Hamas
• Hammarskjöld, Agne Carl Dag Hjalmar
• Hanit, Attack on the
• Haniyeh, Ismail
• Hapoel Hatzair
• Haram al-Sharif
• Haredim
• Harel, Isser
• Hashemites
• Hashomer
• Hasidic Judaism
• Haskalah
• Hasmonean Tunnel incident
• Hassan II, King of Morocco
• Havlaga
• Hawatmeh, Nayef
• Hawi, Khalil
• Hebron
• Hebron Massacre
• Hebron Mosque Massacre
• Hebron Protocol
• Hehalutz movement
• Herzl, Theodor
• Herzog, Chaim
• Hess, Moses
• Hezbollah
• Histadrut
• Hod, Mordechai
• Hofi, Yitzhak
• Holocaust
• Hope-Simpson Report
• Hoveve Zion
• Hrawi, Elias
• Hula Valley
• Hussein, King of Jordan
• Hussein, Saddam - Hussein ibn Ali, Sharif of Mecca
• Husseini, Haj Amin al-
• Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
• Imam
• Immigration to Palestine/Israel
• Improvised explosive devices
• International Red Cross
• Intifada, First
• Intifada, Second
• Iran
• Iran, Armed Forces
• Iran,-Iraq War
• Iraq
• Iraq, Armed Forces
• Iraq War
• Irgun Tsvai Leumi
• Islamic Jihad, Palestinian
• Islamic Movement in Israel
• Ismail Ali, Ahmad
• Israel
• Israel, Arab population in
• Israel Defense Forces
• Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
• Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
• Israeli air strike on presumed Syrian nuclear facility
• Israeli air strikes beginning the Six-Day War
• Israeli Security Fence
• Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Egyptian Front
• Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Iraqi Front
• Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Lebanese Front
• Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Syrian Front
• Israeli War of Independence, Overview
• Israeli War of Independence, Truce Agreements
• Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
• Jabotinsky, Vladimir Yevgenyevich
• Jackson-Vanik Amendment
• Jadid, Salah al-
• Jamal Pasha, Ahmad
• Jarring, Gunnar
• Jarring Mission
• Jenin
• Jericho
• Jericho Conference
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem, Old City of
• Jewish Agency for Israel
• Jewish Brigade
• Jewish Defense League
• Jewish Legion
• Jewish National Fund
• Jihad
• John Paul II, Pope
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines
• Jordan
• Jordan, Armed Forces
• Jordan River
• Kadima Party
• Kaffiyeh
• Karf Qasim Massacre
• Kahane, Meir David
• Karameh, Battle of
• Katsav, Moshe
• Katyusha Rocket
• Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
• Khalaf, Salah
• Khaled, Leila
• Khalid, Hasan
• Khan Yunis
• Khartoum Resolution
• Khatib, Anwar al-
• Khatib, Rawhi al-
• Khomeini, Ruhollah
• Khrushchev, Nikita
• Kibbutz movement
• Kisch, Frederick Hermann
• Kishinev Pogrom
• Kissinger, Henry Alfred
• Knesset
• Kollek, Theodor
• Kook, Abraham Isaac
• Koran
• Kosygin, Alexei
• Kreisky, Bruno
• Kurds
• Kuwait
• Kuwait, Armed Forces
• Labor Party
• Labor Zionism
• Lahoud, Émile Jamil
• Lake Kinneret
• Land Day
• Land rights and disputes
• Laskov, Haim
• Latakia, Battle of
• Latrun, Battles of
• Lavon Affair
• Law of return
• Lawrence, Thomas Edward
• League of Nations Covenant, Article 22
• Lebanon
• Lebanon, Armed Forces
• Lebanon, Civil War in
• Lebanon, Israeli invasion of
• Lebanon, Israeli operations against
• Lebanon, Israeli Security Zone in
• Lebanon, U.S. interventions in
• Levy, David
• Liberty incident
• Libya
• Likud Party
• Lipsky, Louis
• Litani, Operation
• Literary Club
• Literature of the Arab-Israeli Wars
• Livni, Tzipi
• Lloyd, John Selwyn
• Lobbies, Arab
• Lod Airport massacre
• Lohamei Herut Israel
• London Round Table Conference
• Machine guns
• Macmillan, Maurice Harold
• Madrid Conference
• Magic Carpet, Operation
• Mahfouz, Naguib
• Mahmud, Muhammad Sidqi
• Makleff, Mordechai
• Mandler, Avraham Albert
• Mapam Party
• Marcus, David
• Maritime policies and restrictions
• Marshall, George Catlett
• Masada
• Masada, Jewish Student Organization
• Masada2000.org
• Masri, Munib al-
• McGonagle, William Loren
• McMahon-Hussein correspondence
• Mecca
• Medina
• Meir, Golda
• Meretz
• Merkava tank
• Middle East Regional Defense organizations
• Mines and mine warfare, Land
• Mines and mine warfare, Sea
• Minsk Conference
• Missiles, Air-to-air
• Missiles, Air-to-surface
• Missiles, Cruise
• Missiles, Intermediate-range ballistic
• Missiles, Surface-to-air
• Mitla Pass
• Mizrahi Judaism
• Mollet, Guy
• Molotov cocktail
• Montefiore, Sir Moses
• Morocco
• Morrison-Grady Plan
• Moses, Operation
• Moshavim
• Mossad
• Mount Scopus
• Mubarak, Hosni
• Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
• Mushin, Zuhayr
• Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai
• Munich Olympic Games
• Murphy, Robert Daniel
• Musa, Amr Mahmoud
• Music
• Muslim Brotherhood
• Mwawi, Ahmad Ali al-
• Nabhani, Taqu al-din al-
• Nablus
• Nachshon, Operation
• Naguib, Mohammad
• Nahariya
• Nahr al Bared Refugee Camp, Siege of
• Narkiss, Uzi
• Nashashibi, Fakhri al-
• Nashashibi, Raghib
• Nasrallah, Hassan
• Nasser, Gamal Abdel
• National Democratic Party
• National Progressive Front
• National Security Forces, Palestinian
• Nazareth
• Negev Desert
• Nehru, Jawaharlal
• Netanyahu, Benjamin
• Netanyahu, Jonathan
• New Wafd Party
• Nile River
• Nixon, Richard Milhous
• Nordau, Max
• Nuclear weapons
• Oil as an economic weapon
• Oliphant, Laurence
• Olmert, Ehud
• Organization of petroleum exporting countries
• Osiraq Raid
• Oslo Accords
• Ottoman Empire
• Oz, Amos
• Index
• v. 3. P-Z
• List of entries
• List of maps
• General maps
• Pale of settlement
• Palestine, British Mandate for
• Palestine, Partition of
• Palestine, Pre-1918 history of
• Palestine Executive Committee
• Palestine Liberation Army
• Palestine Liberation Front
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Palestine Liberation Organization Phased Plan
• Palestine National Fund
• Palestinian Authority
• Palestinian Christians
• Palestinian elections of 2006
• Palestinian General Security Services
• Palestinian Legislative Council
• Palestinian National Charter
• Palestinian National Council
• Palestinian Refugee Camp
• Palestinian Special Security Force
• Palmach
• Pan-Arab Congress
• Pan-Arabism
• Patria, Destruction of
• Patriot Missile System
• Patterson, John Henry
• Peace movements
• Peel Commission
• Peled, Elad
• Peres, Shimon
• Persian Gulf War
• Pineau, Christian
• Pistols
• Pius XII, Pope
• Pogroms
• Pollard, Jonathan
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
• Port Said
• Presidential Security, Palestinian
• Preventive Security Organization, Palestinian
• Project Babylon
• Promised land
• Qabbani, Nizar
• Qaddafi, Muammar
• Qassam, Izz al-Din al-
• Qassam Rocket
• Qassem, Abdul Karim
• Qawuqji, Fawzi al-
• Qibya massacre
• Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Qurei, Ahmed Ali Mohammed
• Quwatli, Shukri al-
• Rabat Summit
• Rabin, Yitzhak
• Rafah Tunnels
• Ramallah
• Ramla
• Rantisi, Abd al-Aziz
• Reagan, Ronald Wilson
• Reagan Plan
• Red Sea
• Reform Judaism and Zionism
• Religious sites in the Middle East, Christian
• Religious sites in the Middle East, Jewish
• Religious sites in the Middle East, Muslim
• Reshef-Class Guided-Missile Boat
• Restoration movement
• Revisionist Zionism
• Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad, Shah of Iran
• Rice, Condoleezza
• Rifles
• Right of return, Palestinian
• Rogers, William Pierce
• Rogers Plan
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
• Rothschild, Edmond de
• Sabra and Shatila Massacre
• Sadat, Anwar
• Sadeh, Yitzhak
• Said, Edward
• Said, Nuri al-
• Samaritans
• Samu Raid, West Bank
• Samuel, Sir Herbert Louis
• San Remo Conference
• Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Arabia, Armed Forces
• Saudi King as custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
• Sayeret Matkal
• Sephardic Judaism
• Settlements, Israeli
• Shaath, Nabil
• Shaba farms
• Shafi, Haidar Abdel
• Shakur, Yusuf bin Raghib
• Shallah, Ramadan Abdullah
• Shamir, Yitzhak
• Shammout, Ismail
• Shara, Farouk al-
• Sharett, Moshe
• Sharm al-Sheikh
• Sharon, Ariel
• Shas
• Shaw Commission
• Shazar, Shneur Zalman
• Shazly, Saas el-
• Shia Islam
• Shin Bet
• Shiqaqu, Fathi
• Shishakli, Adib al-
• Shomron, Dan
• Shultz, George Pratt
• Shultz Plan
• Sidqi, Atif
• Sinai
• Sinai Campaign
• Sinai 1 and Sinai 2 Agreements
• Siniura, Fuad
• Siniura, Hanna
• Six-Day War
• Smilansky, Yizhar
• Smuts, Jan Christian
• Sokolow, Nahum
• Somoa Raid
• South Lebanon Army
• Soviet Jews, Immigration to Israel
• Soviet Union and Russia, Middle East policy
• Special night squads
• Spector, Yiftah
• Stalin, Joseph
• Star of David
• Stern, Avraham
• Strait of Tiran Crisis
• Straits of Tiran
• Submarines
• Suez Canal
• Suez Crisis
• Suicide bombings
• Summer Rains, Operation
• Sykes-Picot Agreement
• Syria
• Syria, Armed Forces
• Tal, Israel
• Talmud
• Tammuz I reactor
• Tank warfare
• Tanks
• Tel Aviv-Jaffa
• Terrorism
• Tiberias
• Tlass, Mustafa
• Tnuat Hamoshavim
• Tomb of the Patriarchs
• Tripartite Declaration
• Truman, Harry S.
• Trumpeldor, Joseph
• Tschlenow, Yehiel
• Tsomet
• Tunisia
• Turkey, Middle East policy
• Turkmani, Hassan al-
• U Thant
• United Arab Republic
• United Jewish Appeal
• United Kingdom, Middle East policy
• United Nations, Role of
• United nations Charter, Articles 41 and 42
• United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
• United Nations Palestine Partition Plan
• United Nations Peacekeeping Missions
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559
• United Nations Special Commission on Palestine
• United States, Middle East policy
• United States Coordinating and Monitoring Mission
• Unmanned aerial vehicles
• Ussishkin, Menahem
• Valley of Tears, Battle of the
• Vanunu, Mordechai
• Vatican, Relations with Zionism and Israel
• Wahhabism
• Waqf
• Warburg, Otto
• Ward, William E.
• Warships, Surface
• Water rights and resources
• Wauchope, Sir Arthur Grenfell
• Wazir, Khalil al-
• Weinberger, Caspar
• Weizman, Ezer
• Weizmann, Chaim
• West Bank
• Western Wall
• White Paper (1922)
• White Paper (1930)
• White Paper (1939)
• Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
• Wingate, Orde Charles
• Wise, Isaac Mayer
• Wolf, John Stern
• Wolffsohn, David
• Woodhead Report
• World Jewish Congress
• World War I, Impact of
• World War II, Impact of
• World Zionist Organization
• World Zionist Organization Executive
• Wye River Agreement
• Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
• Yadin, Yigal
• Yassin, Ahmed Ismail
• Yemen
• Yemen Civil War
• Wesh Gvul
• Yesha Council
• Yoffe, Avraham
• Yom HaShoah ve ha-Gevurah
• Yom Kippur War
• Young Israel
• Youth Aliya
• Yusuf, Hasan
• Zaim, Husni al-
• Zayyad, Tawfiq
• Zinni, Anthony
• Zion Mule Corps
• Zionism
• Zionist Conference
• Zionist/Israeli socialism
• Zionist Organization of America
• Air Force ranks
• Army ranks
• Navy ranks
• Country profiles
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Selected bibliography
• List of editors and contributors
• Index
• v. 4. Documents
• List of documents
• Documents
• Index.

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Contributors:

Tucker, Spencer, 1937-

Roberts, Priscilla Mary

Pierpaoli, Paul G., Jr., 1962-

Zabecki, David

Zuhur, Sherifa

Zinni, Anthony C.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Arab-Israeli conflict — Encyclopedias

Arab-Israeli conflict — History — Encyclopedias

Jewish-Arab relations — History — Encyclopedias

Arab-Israeli conflict

Jewish-Arab relations

Arab countries

Genres:

Encyclopedias

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

DS119.7 .E5653 2008

ISBNs:

9781851098415 (alk. paper)
1851098410 (alk. paper)
9781851098422 (ebook)
1851098429 (ebook)
9781851099993 (ebook)
1851099999 (ebook)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008009358

OCLC Numbers:

212627327